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| “ | I was just wondering if you wanted to HANG out with me and smoke WEED and fill our bellies with DIET soda and play Burnout: Revenge for the PS2... | „ |
| ~ Mr. Landlord’s request to Allan. |
Mr. Landlord is a minor antagonist from the animated series Smiling Friends. He serves as the main antagonist in the episode titled "A Allan Adventure."
As his title suggests, he is a psychotic landlord and particularly obsessed with Allan Red, one of the show's protagonists and Mr. Landlord's favorite tenant; also his arch-nemesis. His ultimate goal is to (very specifically) hang out, smoke weed, drink diet soda and play Burnout: Revenge on the PlayStation 2 with Allan. When Allan is tasked with finding paperclips for Mr. Boss, his landlord sabotages the quest through an elaborate and absurd scheme, all for the simple goal of forcing him to hang out.
He is voiced by the series' co-creator, Zach Hadel.
His Qualities[]
What Makes Him Entertaining?[]
- His behavior is completely absurd, obsessive, and comedic. He spent over $750,000 and more than 8 months planning an elaborate scheme using "paid actors and animatronics," just to force Allan to hang out with him. This ridiculous plan resulted in multiple deaths, widespread endangerment, and even triggered an airborne battle with the U.S. Military.
- Moreover, he doesn't just want to casually hang out with Allan. He specifically wants to "HANG out with [him] and smoke weed, and fill [their] bellies with DIET soda and play Burnout: Revenge for the PS2." He repeats this exact request using the same audio clip and inflection twice when talking to Allan. He was even willing to blow up the entire city, including himself, using his suicide bomber vest if Allan refused.
- The scheme unfolds in several ridiculous stages:
- First, he has DJ Spit steal Allan's box of paperclips (which Mr. Landlord had already monopolized in the market) and escape via helicopter while Allan hangs from its rail. When Allan barely manages to climb aboard, the helicopter tilts, causing several birds to be brutally shredded. This endangers Allan and everyone nearby, leading to a destructive battle with the U.S. military. When the Air Force shoots a missile at them, the helicopter crashes, and DJ Spit gets impaled through his stomach by a helicopter blade, likely killing him.
- Second, he has the Sasquatch steal and hide the paperclips in his cave, where he then tries to kill Allan.
- Third, he hires Skeleton Pirates to steal the paperclips, forcing Allan to chase them on a raft after their captain decapitates Sasquatch for no reason. When the pirates throw a grenade at him, Allan survives by using two broken raft boards as water-skis. They all get eaten by a gigantic Leviathan, killing the entire Skeleton Crew, including the captain who gets impaled by his own cutlass in the monster's stomach. The Leviathan later shoots Allan out of its blowhole after he repeatedly stabs its stomach in anger.
- After Mr. Landlord revealed himself to be behind the quest in the apartment by luring Allan there with a note (which the paperclip box contained the entire time), he proved how ruthless he is by threatening to blow up everyone in the city, including Allan and himself, with a bomb strapped around him if the latter doesn’t agree to hang out with him.
- For as little purpose as it served, it is still impressive that he could concoct this scheme and have it function as "smoothly" as it did.
- He has no identity beyond "Mr. Landlord" and is ultimately just Allan's crazy landlord, somehow capable of doing everything he did. It is left completely ambiguous as to where he got all of this money and which of his minions were animatronics or not, making him comedically enigmatic. He is first revealed as though he is a one-off joke when he knocks on Allan's door and asks to hang out. After all of Allan's trials, he is revealed as the mastermind, but still, none of it makes any sense.
- He randomly screams words like "HANG" and "DIET" (perfectly voiced by Zach Hadel with his nasally tone and knack for performing these types of characters), causing his face to contort and stretch while his eyes bulge. His appearance is comically ugly, featuring an emaciated form, blue skin, mismatched eye colors, scribbled pupils, three wispy strands of hair, and overall a crudely drawn appearance. He's also usually naked except for a brown vest concealing his bomb.
- The character isn't taken seriously at all, and is therefore impossible to actually hate despite his evil, especially since his entire feud with Allan centers on a mundane box of paperclips. Everything becomes trivial when they're finally forced to play Burnout: Revenge together, with Mr. Landlord lamely mocking Allan for being bad at the game and insisting that he's "not actually trying," even though Mr. Landlord is ramming Allan's car. In the end, he's defeated by a simple paperclip disabling his bomb.
- Despite his malicious and petty nature, he's not purely evil. He seems to genuinely view Allan as a friend, and he respects his ancestors enough to kill himself in their honor when his plan fails.
What Makes Him Detestable?[]
- It does not need to be said that causing the deaths of multiple people, torturing a tenant for an entire day, and threatening to blow up an entire city and its population - all for the purpose of hanging out - is detestable. He is not a magnificent villain because he is far too comedic, absurd, and petty. Ultimately, he was defeated by a paperclip because he was too focused on his fixations - Burnout: Revenge, weed, and diet soda - to even notice Allan's maneuver.
- The only thing he feels remorse over is dishonoring his ancestors; everything else was negligible or enjoyable for him.
- He proves obnoxious in a general sense when the two finally hang out, as he mocks Allan for being bad at Burnout: Revenge and for supposedly not trying, even though Mr. Landlord is ramming Allan's car in the game while refusing to acknowledge it.
External Links[]
- Mr. Landlord on the Villains Wiki
- Mr. Landlord on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
- Mr. Landlord on the Smiling Friends Wiki
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